Action Comics #893 [Direct Sales]

(November 2010)

The Black Ring Part Four (Table of Contents: 1)

Lex Luthor / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Cornell

Pencils

Sean Chen

Inks

Wayne Faucher

Colors

Brad Anderson

Letters

Rob Leigh

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lex Luthor; Robot Lois Lane [RoboLois]; Gorilla Grodd; Ms. Jessup [as Ms. Jessop]; Mr. Finch; Mr. Spalding; Mr. Cardington (flashback); Death of the Endless (cameo)

Synopsis

Luthor and his team continue their quest for the Black Ring energy, this time to Uganda, where they are being monitored by Gorilla Grodd. Grodd sends his apes to kidnap RoboLois, discovering she's a robot. He then attacks the team directly, beheading Luthor with his combat spoon and eating his head; but he finds it's another robot. Instead, Luthor has infiltrated Grodd's headquarters, where a black sphere is. After getting what they want, they escape in a chopper, but Grodd returns in time to shoot Luthor with a raygun rifle, and Luthor falls to a likely death.

Reprints

• in Superman: The Black Ring (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([May] 2011)
• in Superman: The Black Ring (DC, 2012 series) #1 (2011 [April 2012])

Keywords

Bwindi National Park Uganda; Combat Spoon

Indexer Notes

Story continued from the previous issue and continues in the next issue.

Jimmy Olsen's Big Week Day One (Table of Contents: 2)

Jimmy Olsen / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Nick Spencer

Pencils

R. B. Silva

Inks

Denis Freitas

Colors

Dave McCaig

Letters

Rob Leigh

Genre

superhero

Characters

Jimmy Olsen; Great Djinni (flashback); Superman (flashback); Chloe Sullivan (introduction); Rory; Kev; Sebastien Mallory (introduction)

Synopsis

After looking back at a time he became a genie to defeat the Great Djinni, Jimmy plays the Superman video game while being dumped by Chloe Sullivan. His friends try to cheer him up by taking him to a club, but they get bumped from their table by Sebastien Mallory, who is accompanied by Chloe (who is doing a story on him). Jimmy and Sebastien try to one-up each other, but Jimmy brags he will stop an alien invasion, which just started as they were talking.

Reprints

• in Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2011 series) #1 (May 2011)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in the next issue. This story is the first in-continuity appearance of the character Chloe Sullivan, who was first introduced in the Smallville TV show in 2001.

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Teen Titans / promo (ad from the publisher) / 5 pages (report information)

The End is Near [September 29, 2010] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

DC Nation / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[House Advertisements] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 3 pages (report information)

[Ads] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

advertisement / 4 pages (report information)